It's hard to believe how badly AIDS victims were treated back in the day. Ignored by your government and demonized by society. The whole article is about tryi

It's hard to believe how badly AIDS victims were treated back in the day. Ignored by your government and demonized by society. The whole article is about trying to rationalize denying medical care to subjects of "voluntary sexual perversion or mainline drug abuse". I'm glad that the gay rights movement in the US has helped since then. I listened to a really good interview with a survivor where he talked about seeing his friends and loved ones dying left and right. There was even a time when morgues would refuse to accept their bodies since it was all a "gay problem" that they didn't want to take a risk on. There are apparently morgues which that group of people exclusively use now because they were the ones to treat their friends like human beings during the AIDS crisis. It got so bad that at one point people dying of AIDS at home (because hospitals didn't want to deal with you) would ask their friends to dump their corpse on the white house lawn when they passed. They did this to protest the despicable treatment of gay people and AIDS victims by the Reagan administration. I would recommend everyone sit down and learn about this period of time. It was really eye opening to me how one group of people can be treated as less than human by almost every aspect of society. It's really not something they talk about in public school. Edit: Here's the link to the interview I was talking about: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/shame-on-you/e/66787240 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/shame-on-you/e/66787240